LAURIE JOLY

ECHO is an interactive performance and a sound installation which simultaneously work for an hour and a half in two places thirty kilometres away. The performance is a continuous walking of my body with a spy micro in the corridors of the Montparnasse-Bienvenüe tube Station in Paris. In a stairwell on the third floor of the IFI building of the Paris-Est University in Noisy-le-Grand, the installation transmits the sound of my moving body in the tube station, in real time via the GSM network. It comprises a mobile phone which is connected to the spy micro (in Paris) and to a pair of speakers on site. These speakers are aligned from top to bottom on a part of the metal structure of the stairwell and form a invisible line of sound. In a relationship between the physical presence of the body and its absence and in this remote connection of spaces, the issue of Echo is the creation of a co-presence of my body via a technological network and its sound perception. Its intensity is fluctuating as soon as it depends on my movement rhythm which varies and on the tube station architecture which is source of different resonance effects.

ECHO - Part I, interactive performance

« With a spy micro on my body, I walk with a regular and repetitive rhythm along the many corridors in the Montparnasse-Bienvenüe tube station. I appropriate the space throughout the time of the performance. I'm in the middle of a continual bustle of bodies. Various body rhythms appear. My moving body relays its own tempo. Sometimes it adapts to the environment's tempo, sometimes it sets against it. »

Echo - Part II, sound installation

Technological interconnection of a stairwell in the IFI - IPEM building in Noisy-le-Grand (Fr) and the Montparnasse-Bienvenüe tube station in Paris (Fr) via the GSM network. Diffusion in real time of the sound from the walking for the entire duration of the performance.